Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] off [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 2 | It all looked so carefree , so enticingly Mediterranean and relaxed , that Caroline suddenly longed to be able to forget her business , abandon all her years of hard work , hop on board one of those yachts and sail off indefinitely towards the hazy blue horizon … |
| 3 | Narrow staircases , infested with mouse droppings , where those who had no money whatsoever huddled on the steps for shelter , coming like wraiths in the night when they were less likely to be turned away , and drifting off again in the early morning . |
| 4 | Then , a little past noon , the doctor took his hat , his pistols and a sword , put the map in his pocket , and walked off quickly through the trees . |
| 5 | She turned and walked off quickly towards the sheds . |
| 6 | Hugh urged Mrs Tobias into her taxi and walked off smartly in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Many of the living echinoids are protected by spines , some sharp and breaking off easily into the unwary foot , others stout and clublike ; a few groups have taken to burrowing into sediment , and the spines have become small and felt-like . |
| 8 | We got on , and started off again through the lonely night , in pitch darkness , not a house or a lantern to be seen . |
| 9 | The two slipped quietly over the tailboard and marched off smartly along the Commercial Road , not daring to run in case they attracted the policeman 's attention . |
| 10 | The tram clanged its bell and rattled off angrily into the gloom . |
| 11 | We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train . |
| 12 | Then they form up into single file with as many as fifty in a column , each animal touching the rear end of the one ahead with its stick-like antennae , and set off briskly across the sandy sea floor , heading for deeper water . |
| 13 | The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor . |
| 14 | She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside . |
| 15 | Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard . |
| 16 | At the Grand , David Swan fastened his amended photopass to his jacket and set off briskly towards the conference centre some two hundred yards away . |
| 17 | Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles . |
| 18 | With a half-shudder , she left the lower bowel and set off gingerly along the rather treacherous surface of the greater intestine which coiled before her — a tunnel she was n't too sure she saw the light at the end of . |
| 19 | With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians . |